S*I*G*H — Jim Newton at the Times repeated the misinformation that the League of Cities appoints the “city” members to the Metro Board. He’d have known it is actually the L.A. County City Selection Commitee if he’d read coverage of the issue here. I’ve e-mailed him about the mistake. This common mis-understanding is partly because to draw a quroum that Committee meetings often piggyback on meetings of the League. But kudos for Newton giving us a head’s up the showdown meeting of the Committee is March 7th!

Word On The Street

“...currently in Metro rail's budget 25% of that goes to security of the system. Not towards more service but security of the system. I wouldn't be so harsh and cynical about this had the Sheriff's been more visible at all Metro stations...”